If an event can have all sides of India’s fractious political spectrum sitting in silence alongside each other — as they were at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Sunday night — it must be somethin

New Delhi: It was not the golden start India would have been hoping for but there was plenty to cheer on the opening day of competition in the 19th Commonwealth Games here on Monday. The weightlifters

New Delhi: It was not the golden start India would have been hoping for but there was plenty to cheer on the opening day of competition in the 19th Commonwealth Games here on Monday. The weightlifters

Forget the spit-stained walls, the unsightly loos, paw prints on athletes’ beds and flooded basements. Much of that has been tackled and as the overflowing Yamuna recedes towards normality, hopes are on the rise of a 19th edition of the Commonwealth Games that will be one to remember.
Just the figures — and not those dealing with cost over-runs or overpriced treadmills — are impressive. For the first time ever, the Commonwealth Games will see in e

As if the withdrawal of world and Olympic sprint king Usain Bolt and a number of top Australian swimmers was not bad enough, Britain’s four-time Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Chris Hoy will not be seen in action either at the forthcoming 19th Common-wealth Games in Delhi.